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Author suresh
Recipients paul.moore, steve.dower, suresh, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2021-02-09.05:36:36
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Python base package filecmp is not working properly for 'UTF-8 BOM' css files.
I am using python version 3.6 and windows 10 OS.

while running the below code getting as False always.However the file content are same.

Code :

import filecmp
filecmp.clear_cache()
boolfile=filecmp.cmp(r'C:\Users\suresh.n\python\RPA\Page\Sowmiya\downloads\destination.txt',r'C:\Users\suresh.n\python\RPA\Page\Sowmiya\source\source,r'C:\Users\suresh.n\python\RPA\Page\Sowmiya\downloads.txt',shallow=False)
print(boolfile)
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